Chapter 1: Meeting Present and Emerging Human Resource Challenges

Chapter 1: Meeting Present and Emerging Human Resource Challenges
Challenges

After reading this chapter, you should be able to deal more effectively with the following challenges:

1. Explain how a firm's human resources influence its performance.

2. Describe how firms can use human resource initiatives to cope with workplace changes and trends such as a more diverse work force, the global economy, and new legislation.

3. Distinguish between the role of the human resources department and the role of the firm's managers in utilizing human resources effectively.

4. Indicate how members of the human resources department and managers within a company can establish a strong partnership.

5. Formulate and implement HR strategies that can help the firm achieve a sustained competitive advantage.

6. Identify HR strategies that fit corporate and business unit strategies.